European Electronics Industry Names NI LabVIEW Product of the Year; National Instruments Receives Prestigious Award at Reed Electronics Group, Electronics Weekly Event
National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) today announced NI LabVIEW 7.1 graphical development environment received the Product of the Year award at the 2004 European Electronics Industry Awards held in Germany last month. The Product of the Year award recognizes a new electronics product that stands out in the areas of design, innovation and usability and is successful in addressing a specific application.
The European Electronics Industry Awards, organized by Reed Electronics Group and Electronics Weekly magazine, is a celebration of the companies and people achieving the highest standards and driving the electronics industry forward. Held on Nov. 15 in Munich, Germany, the event recognized excellence in the electronics industry across the UK and Europe. An independent judging panel, comprised of representatives from companies, trade bodies, academia and Electronics Weekly editorial staff, selected the award recipients.
“As this award was judged by a panel of independent technology and industry experts from across Europe, this is a true recognition by industry peers of the importance of National Instruments LabVIEW 7.1,” said Richard Wilson, editor of Electronics Weekly. “It was also noted that this version of LabVIEW extended the software’s usefulness, particularly in the area of real-time embedded control systems.”
NI LabVIEW is the graphical development environment for creating flexible and scalable test, measurement and control applications rapidly and at minimal cost. Engineers and scientists use LabVIEW to interface with real-world signals, analyze data for meaningful information and share results and applications. With LabVIEW 7.1, NI continues to advance automated instrumentation for hardware platforms ranging from high-performance modular instruments to real-time data acquisition systems and handheld devices. The software includes five new Express VIs for NI digitizers, signal generators and high-speed digital I/O that help engineers configure sophisticated measurements and acquire data with just a few mouse clicks.
About LabVIEW
Since 1986, NI LabVIEW has redesigned measurement and automation with its unique graphical development methodology. Noted by the editorial community as premiere software in the electronics, industrial control and electronics design industries and recipient of 11 awards in 2004, LabVIEW delivers an intuitive and powerful way to acquire, analyze and present measurements at every stage of development, from prototyping to design to manufacturing test. LabVIEW is available on Windows, Macintosh, Sun Solaris and Linux operating systems.
About National Instruments
National Instruments ( www.ni.com ) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation — a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists in industry, government and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 41 countries. In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past five years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
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